Improvement in figured writing-paper



y to appear upon the finished paper.

NrrEn STATES PATENT GEORGE LA MONTE AND JOHN H. HALL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN FlGUlRED WRITING-PAPER.

Specification forming part ofLetters Patent No. 159.516, dated February9, 1875; application filed June 17,1874.

To all whom "it may concern Be it known that we, GEORGE LA MONTE andJOHN H. HALL, of the city, county, and State of New York, have inventedan Improved Figured WritingePaper; and do hereby declare the followingto be a full and correct description of the same.

Our invention consists in the production, as a new article ofmanufacture, of fancy papers distinguishable, by their high and uniformfinish on both sides, from the fancy papers hitherto produced.

Ornamental or figured writing-papers, known in the trade as fancypapers, are now made either by water-marking or pressure between plates,upon which the desired patterns or designs are engraved or otherwiseproduced.

The improved figured paper which we produce is prepared by passing damppaper in a continuous sheet between a pair of heavy steel rollers, oneof which is figured or engraved with any device or design which isintended This process can be used either upon the paper as it comes dampfrom the wires before being dried, or upon'paper dampened after havingbeen dried, the former method being preferred. After passing between thefiguring-rolls the paper is calendered in the usual way.

The result of this method of manufacture is a figured paper in which thefigured portions are more condensed or consolidated and more translucentthan the body of the paper, and have a fiat or dead finish, while theplain portion of the surface is comparatively opaque,

and is very highly and equally finished on both sides.

The ordinary fancy papers are always figured after being calendered, andthis produces an easily-distinguishable difference of finish,recognizable both by the appearance and feel, between the two sides ofthe sheet, and makes it impossible to impart to these papers the highfinish, uniform on both sides, by which our paper is characterized. Thishigh and uniform finish imparted to the paper by our process ofmanufacture makes it readily distin guishable from theembossed,water-marked, or plated fancy papers produced by the oldmethods.

We claim- As a new article of manufacture, figured paper, in which thefigures, patterns, or designs are more condensed or consolidated thanthe body of the paper, such ornamental parts being translucent, andhaving a flat or dead finish, while the general surface of the paper iscomparatively opaque, and highly and equally finished on both surfaces,as specified.

The above specification of our said invention signed and. witnessed atNew York this 9th day of June, A. D. 1874.

GEO. LA MONTE. JOHN H. HALL.

